D3D Grid

Hint: Design Proposal: Please comment and improve!

Design Idea and Goal

Convert the design of the D3D Universal to adhere to a grid-based standard. To accomplish this, here are some considerations:

• Printed pieces would need (minor?) changes so that screw-holes match the grid
• Baseplate layout (and parts that connect to it) has to match the grid

Goals

• Make the design more modular and "Lego-like"
• Grid constraints could make future part design more simple
• Grids make parts and assembly more predictable
• Parts have the (increased) potential to be used in ways not imagined before

Grid-based standards

• GridBeam
• OpenStructures https://openstructures.net/
  • Grid and design "manual" (PDF, 2 pages) [1]
• Contraptor http://www.contraptor.org/

• Bitbeam https://bitbeam.org/2012/08/25/bitbeambot-the-complete-kit/
• OpenBeam https://github.com/ttstam/OpenBeam
  • Bitbeambot parts [2]
  • few pieces for 3D printer
  • seems dormant/abandoned

References

• How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware [3]